This is my view from the stage of our Summer Nights Concert in Schönbrunn. Impressive!  

This week, a few days before Easter and 1 1/2 weeks before my big day at the Vienna City Marathon, I visited Toyko for only two days. And so I can add Tokyo…

Some of you might be aware of the fact that the Musikverein houses an extensive collection of musical manuscripts, prints and so on, but that a sizable, impressive number of historic musical instruments…

Yes it was exciting!  And hard. You cannot compare any concert or performance during the year with the intensity and atmosphere of the New Years Concert. I’m happy that everything went very well,…

Every 3 years I get to perform at the musical olympics: our New Year’s Concert in the amazing Golden Hall of the Musikverein. I personally always really appreciate the stunning floristic decoration. What…

I guess most of you know the gilded statue of Johann Strauß II in Vienna’s Stadtpark. Well, the foyer of Harmony Hall in Fukui (a splendid hall, by the way)  boasts a statue…

Hiroshima, Tajimi, Okayama…the first 3 concerts on our Wiener Virtuosen tour are done! Great  ensemble, colourful program, amazing concert halls, lovely audiences, and so motivated school orchestras when we have some coaching sessions…

Sometimes my best concerts happen when I don’t expect it at all. Yesterday night at Minoo, Maple-Hall, outside of Osaka, almost in the countryside, fresh air, green mountains and a very nice concert…

Sometimes it’s weird when and where I write my posts. After a packed week – touring with wonderful guitar player Janez Gregoric in Austria, an Auers’ Flutery lecture concert in Vienna and a…

It was such a great opportunity to performe our most beautiful flute concerto – the Mozart Flute/Harp concerto – together with the outstanding and fantastic harp player Anneleen Lenaerts and CASCO Phil under…